Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has come out to say that his decision to substitute Bruno Fernandes vs Liverpool was tactical. He recently revealed that he has no issues with the Portuguese showing his anger at being substituted during games.
According to him, Bruno has been playing a lot since he joined the team, so he’ll surely decide to rest his talisman once in a while during games.
He added that with Liverpool’s problems at centre back, it was only right to take Bruno off and try to win the game late with pace upfront.
His words, “It was a tactical decision,”
“Bruno has been running his socks off for us in every single game since he came here. Running, more or less, every game.
“Towards the end, I felt Paul [Pogba’s] physical presence in there might be a chance for us.
“Mason, you know if he gets a chance he can score in the blink of a second. But it was a throw of the dice to get Mason on, even though he had to defend against [Andy] Robertson.”
“I wanted Marcus up top. Because of his pace. We just missed a few moments in both the first half and the second half to play that ball a little bit quicker or with a bit more quality.
“It was there that we could hurt them a bit because we knew about their problems at centre-back.”
